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by hansvm 5mo ago
> toothpaste out of the tube Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2521/
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by hansvm 5mo ago
On the other hand, I know several "home-schooled" people [0] who literally can't even read and later married people more than twice their age or had other serious deficiencies in their life potential. The government can proba
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Pickle is definitely turing-complete. It's a super easy way to RCE your system.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
That's nothing compared to my (L)udicrously (O)verpowered (L)earner AI.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
It's the same idea. The crux of the argument is that the author has a history of bad predictions, so this must also be a bad prediction, or it's at least likely enough to be bad that we done need to invest further analysis into it
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Ignoring LLMs, the status quo for defense is that you're pwnable from the silliest of mistakes, and the status quo for offense is that even one lucky shot lets you in. Suppose you brought in 1000x more people to projects on both sides;
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Numpy is interesting in that regard since its dispatch mechanism adds up to a lot of overhead. There are a lot of problems where a naive list comprehension is faster, even when SIMD could be used to great effect.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I share that opinion for both compiled languages and JIT solutions, including .net core specifically. All but the most trivial use cases can't be autovectorized, by JIT or otherwise. One
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by hansvm 5mo ago
DRY is critically important as it pertains to correctness. If DRY is hard to achieve for technical reasons then back-reference comments and whatnot can suffice, but you really do want only one owner for each meaningful fact in your codebase
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Recently, they've stopped even being able to allow specific transactions through for me. They can tag the flagged transaction as legitimate and hope the AI picks up on that, but that hasn't worked once in the last ~15 calls for me
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by hansvm 5mo ago
If we're lucky, this'll help get us better roads. I'm never exactly happy slowing down to 10mph on the freeway because it isn't obvious whether the 100ft long puddle is an inch deep or 2ft, and I can sidestep some of tha
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I'd invite you to ask a few poor people what happened the last time the government "definitely sent" some important document or another in the mail. If a governmental employee gets the address wrong, gets the name wrong, acci
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by hansvm 5mo ago
You can do a lot better than this if you redefine the problem from directly generating images with certain contrasts to maximizing information gain, even with weak magnets. They've since basically run out of money and are on life suppo
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by hansvm 5mo ago
The government is just people. Even before the current fiasco, the government had varying degrees of incompetence and malice, and if you're poor you can't do anything about it since the government is presumed to have been operatin
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Yeah, harness quality matters too, but the underlying model capabilities are night and day.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Claude is the only AI coding tool I've found worth a damn. Without it I'd just do everything by hand save for a few bash scripts or whatever.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
You use Python when it makes sense for other reasons (library support, coworker familiarity, etc), same as for any other project. Additionally, sometimes performance matters, but perhaps not enough to overcome whatever else is drawing you t
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Except the presence of errors, mistakes, contradictions, and doubling-back causes LLMs to have substantially worse output, especially without dedicated sub-agents who have been instructed about that deficiency and know to process that kind
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Ha, I wrote something like this ages ago when I had to interact with a Java application and really wanted/needed Python utilities. I created my own concurrent, type-safe DDL to shepherd that data.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Today's state of the art compilers can't even do vectorized integer division by a compile time known constant very well. They definitely can't map high-level constructs onto low-level patterns, and they don't carry anywh
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by hansvm 5mo ago
On the other hand, I often want an LLM to write things from scratch instead of bringing in 10x the surface area in unnecessary dependencies, and I very, very rarely get better results when these things are let loose on a cesspool of a web.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
> so much more out of the same 24 hours Do they? Are they doing more work, or is the set of things they've chosen to be good at more stereotypically impressive than the set of things you've chosen to be good at? > all the wo
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I haven't yet seen anyone with a concrete example project (public ideally, but even describing private efforts in enough detail to enable potential criticism would be fine) making a claim as strong as 10x. Are you willing to break the
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Qutebrowser is my favorite daily driver, save for a few sites I can't boycott and which need Firefox or something.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Most jobs I've had didn't care about a transcript in the slightest. It matters for future education and a small selection of jobs, and even them a few pass/fail courses won't cause any issues. It's not great if impo
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by hansvm 5mo ago
About goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I would've been in several fewer wrecks if humans properly stopped at lights.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
That's timely. I had been thinking of trying Chrome out again, but it looks like it's in my interests to remain fully de-Googled.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I'd bet a lot of money on AI at least having a substantial influence on the phrasing.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
It worked for bread. Why wouldn't it work for AI? I've been baking allen wrenches and screws into my sliced bread for ages, and no single living person has complained about it.

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